Blood, sweat, and mahjong : family and enterprise in an overseas Chinese community

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Main Author: Oxfeld, Ellen, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Series:Anthropology of contemporary issues
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505 0 |a A Note on Chinese Romanization and Names -- 1. Family Trajectories and Panah Enterprise: Hakka Chinese Tanners of Calcutta -- 2. Research in an Ethnic Matrix -- 3. The Emergence of an Entrepreneunal Community: History and Social Organization -- 4. Profit, Loss, and Fate: Gambling and the Entrepreneurial Ethic -- 5. No Instant Success: The First Generation -- 6. "Wife's Wealth": The Familial Division of Labor and Income -- 7. "Branches of a Tree": Family and Firm in the Second and Third Generations -- 8. Individualism, Holism, and the Profit Motive: Mr. Zhou's Story -- Epilogue: Immigrants and Visitors in Toronto. 
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